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Quotes about taxes and taxation
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The wisdom of man never yet contrived a system of taxation that would operate with perfect equality. (Manchin Joe)
Government lasts as long as the under-taxed can defend themselves against the over-taxed. (Manchin Joe)
Why does a slight tax increase cost you two hundred dollars and a substantial tax cut save you thirty cents. (Manchin Joe)
There is just one thing I can promise you about the outer-space program -- your tax-dollar will go further. (Manchin Joe)
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Taxing is an easy business. Any projector can contrive new compositions, any bungler can add to the old. (Manchin Joe)
To tax and to please, no more than to love and to be wise, is not given to men. (Manchin Joe)
Read my lips: no new taxes. (Manchin Joe)
It is the duty of a good shepherd to shear his sheep, not to skin them. (Manchin Joe)
There is one difference between a tax collector and a taxidermist -- the taxidermist leaves the hide. (Manchin Joe)
No statesmen ever will find it worth his pains, to tax our labor and excise our brain. (Manchin Joe)
Nothing is so well calculated to produce a death-like torpor in the country as an extended system of taxation and a great national debt. (Manchin Joe)
The art of taxation consists in so plucking the goose as to obtain the largest amount of feathers with the least possible amount of hissing. (Manchin Joe)
I have always paid income tax. I object only when it reaches a stage when I am threatened with having nothing left for my old age -- which is due to start next Tuesday or Wednesday. (Manchin Joe)
Nothing hurts more than having to pay an income tax, unless it is not having to pay an income tax. (Manchin Joe)
All money nowadays seems to be produced with a natural homing instinct for the Treasury. (Manchin Joe)
The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax. (Manchin Joe)
Every advantage has its tax. (Manchin Joe)
We are taxed twice as much by our idleness, three times as much by our pride and four times as much by our foolishness. (Manchin Joe)
There is no kind of dishonesty into which otherwise good people more easily and frequently fall than that of defrauding the government. (Manchin Joe)
Income tax time is when you test your powers of deduction. (Manchin Joe)
The difference between tax avoidance and tax evasion is the thickness of a prison wall. (Manchin Joe)
Only little people pay taxes. (Manchin Joe)
The avoidance of taxes is the only intellectual pursuit that still carries any reward. (Manchin Joe)
The promise of yesterday are the taxes of today. (Manchin Joe)
The rope by which the great blocks of taxes are attached to any citizenry is simple loyalty. (Manchin Joe)
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